Boxer Imane Khelif appeals to Court of Arbitration over World Boxing’s genetic sex test decision
Boxer Imane Khelif appeals to Court of Arbitration over World Boxing’s genetic sex test decision
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Imane Khelif appeals to Cas over World Boxing’s genetic sex test decision
Isn’t this chick, like, not trans at all? I don’t get why shes being dragged into this culture war insanity, unless I’m wrong.
Yes she is cis. Conservatives only care about women in sports as long as they turn them on
Inane Khelif is an example of transphobic hysteria getting out of hand. This poor woman is being demonized and accused of "being a man" because these fuckers don't think she's pretty or feminine enough. There's a misogyny angle too.
Women with a certain jaw shape, small breasts, muscular physique, tone of voice, etc. will be deliberately misgendered even if they have lived as cisgender their whole lives.
But in many ways, its nothing new. Girls who are tomboys or have short hair or wear loose jeans and hoodies have always been slandered for not being "girly" enough. It's just that trans is the current weapon of choice for conservatives looking to bully people.
Because people are way, way worse at spotting trans people than they think they are. And they’re really bad at statistics.
Cis women are literally half the population, so even if you assume 95% of cis women look so feminine that nobody could mistake them for male, that still means you’re roughly 10x more likely to run into a ‘masculine looking’ cis woman than a trans woman period, regardless of how masculine or feminine she looks to anyone.